ravcon wrote:

I've got one but never use it. I just don't buy into the whole revival, and I work at a record store. I prefer the large artwork format, but it ends there. I've still got a bunch of records though, or as the kids call them "vinyls" (cringe).

The revival is not actual a revival! It's a death knell. Way too expensive...

With that said... I love the tactility of the format combined with the larger art. I'm not in it for the sound, more the physical touching and beauty.

ravcon wrote:

I agree Jake, the industry is bent on killing it. Prices go up all the time. I do like the format, and I have fond memories of the experience. It has its charms, no doubt.

Yep, I don't view it as a revival either, just have a significant closet full of records & may want to still play some of 'em. The tactile aspect of an album can't be ignored; kinda like the difference between reading something on a 'device' vs. holding, reading, & marking a book.

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Vinyl does sound better but I'm not spending a dime to convert formats again. Records to 8 tracks to cassettes to cd's?? No way buddy. Too expensive and time consuming! But I do miss the artwork!

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

I do love gatefolds.

Mike

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I have one, nothing crazy, but I do like playing records. Meanwhile, I have a friend who went from having no records to having several walls full of mostly new vinyl. I didn't realize you could GET several walls full of mostly new vinyl!

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Still have a turntable.
Love the sound but not on all new vinyl.
Some new vinyl is gimmick only. If the recordings weren't captured in a format that can use the bandwidth of vinyl then there will be no difference to the listener between CD and vinyl.
Not all old vinyl is king either.
An original pressing of Derek and The Dominos sounds like shit compared with the re-mastered CD. Great music, great playing, not so great mixing and mastering (and I love Tom Dowd)
The records that are and were recorded in a format that benefits from being distributed on vinyl are beautiful, have dimension and can be very close to being in the room with the musician.
I've never been into trends so that part kind of wears on me and like Mike (Ravcon) I hate when the younger folks use the phrase "vinyls" but I have been known to be a curmudgeon and as long as they are buying and listening to music it's cool with me.

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CrazyAces wrote:

An original pressing of Derek and The Dominos sounds like shit compared with the re-mastered CD. Great music, great playing, not so great mixing and mastering (and I love Tom Dowd)

One of my personal favorites, and I can vouch for your statement!

JakeDobner wrote:

CrazyAces wrote:

An original pressing of Derek and The Dominos sounds like shit compared with the re-mastered CD. Great music, great playing, not so great mixing and mastering (and I love Tom Dowd)

One of my personal favorites, and I can vouch for your statement!

+2; that's a perfect example. Awhile back a friend put that in the player during a trip like he wanted me to listen to something he'd just discovered.
"Holy...!" My record doesn't sound like that; I went & bought the CD.

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The early CDs sound bad, all that Beatles, Dylan, Kinks, Elvis Costello, Neil Young(among others).

The reissued version of a lot of these albums sounds amazing, and better than the original vinyl.

Mastering got a lot better in the 80s(from what these ears hear), having improved upon the 60s Mastering throughout the 70s.

Ultimately, it doesn't make an album better or worse. But we, as fans, just want to hear the album in the best possible way possible. Still some of my fondest musical memories was listening to Derek and the Dominos after I discovered the vinyl at a goodwill. I owned 6 copies at one point, having scoured thrift stores across the Seattle area for cheap music to buy in the late 90s/early 2000s.

revhank wrote:

I have an acquaintance who was the engineer for one of the classical nominated Grammys last night. Years ago he played 2 CD versions of the same recording for people (in a blind test), adding the white noise from records on one. More people seemed to prefer the CD with the white noise. Not scientific, but interesting none-the-less.

Rev

That is interesting!
I actually prefer most classical (baroque, romantic, opera etc) on CD unless it's a solo or small ensemble performnace.

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